Ecclesiastes Through New Eyes Quotes

“Becoming wise and mature often consists in simply being able to acknowledge and negotiate the complexity of life, that several different things are true.”
― Jeffrey J. Meyers, Ecclesiastes Through New Eyes: A Table in the Mist

“the believer that he will accept life as a gift from God and accept his limited place without fretting over trying to pry into God’s hidden wisdom. As Old Testament scholar Walter Kaiser explains, “The conclusion (5:18–20) remains the same. Man must get enjoyment, not possessions. And that capacity to enjoy, no matter how great or how small, is a gift from God.”
― Jeffrey J. Meyers, Ecclesiastes Through New Eyes: A Table in the Mist

“despite all this, there will be those who will spend all of their days—days and nights, nights and days—working to amass riches and possessions. They will consign themselves to lives of frustration, affliction, and anger—to eating “in darkness in much vexation and sickness and anger.”
― Jeffrey J. Meyers, Ecclesiastes Through New Eyes: A Table in the Mist

“Thomas Brooks advised, “It is a very high point of Christian wisdom and prudence always to look upon the good things and the great things of this world as a man will certainly look upon them when he comes to die.”
― Jeffrey J. Meyers, Ecclesiastes Through New Eyes: A Table in the Mist

“Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven” (Prov. 23:5).”
― Jeffrey J. Meyers, Ecclesiastes Through New Eyes: A Table in the Mist

“C. Ryle said it well: “Money is in truth one of the most unsatisfying of possessions. It takes away some cares, no doubt; but it brings with it quite as many cares as it takes away. There is the trouble in the getting of it. There is anxiety in the keeping of it. There are temptations in the use of it. There is guilt in the abuse of it. There is sorrow in the losing of it. There is perplexity in the disposing of it.”
― Jeffrey J. Meyers, Ecclesiastes Through New Eyes: A Table in the Mist

“Increase your wealth and you will experience a corresponding increase in anxiety about the future of that wealth.”
― Jeffrey J. Meyers, Ecclesiastes Through New Eyes: A Table in the Mist

“Whether or not you will be content does not have as much to do with how much we have as it often does with how you deal with what you have been given. In and of themselves wealth and labor are unsatisfactory; they bring no ultimate satisfaction, nor do they bring a man or woman leverage or advantage in the world.”
― Jeffrey J. Meyers, Ecclesiastes Through New Eyes: A Table in the Mist

“The gift of biblical wisdom, in other words, is not all about getting a privileged seat in God’s traffic control tower of the world. We don’t get to understand why things happen the way they do. We are mistaken if we think wisdom gives us that sort of insight.”
― Jeffrey Meyers, Ecclesiastes Through New Eyes: A Table in the Mist